Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished European Mechanics; Together with a Collection of Anecdotes, Descriptions, &c. &c., Relating to the Mechanic ArtsHarper & brothers, 1847 - 482 páginas |
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... nature , which so strongly marked the author of its pages . This memoir is addressed to the " worthy Nathaniel Irwin , of Neshamoney , " in Pennsylvania , a clergyman and a gentleman of whose talents and kindness of disposition Fitch ...
... nature , which so strongly marked the author of its pages . This memoir is addressed to the " worthy Nathaniel Irwin , of Neshamoney , " in Pennsylvania , a clergyman and a gentleman of whose talents and kindness of disposition Fitch ...
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... natural affection carried my griefs to a very great excess for a child of my age . " He here , and frequently elsewhere , speaks of his mother with regard , and no doubt her loss proved injurious to him . She was a kind and ...
... natural affection carried my griefs to a very great excess for a child of my age . " He here , and frequently elsewhere , speaks of his mother with regard , and no doubt her loss proved injurious to him . She was a kind and ...
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... nature , and such as invari- ably obstruct the progress of a new invention , attended him in England . He was often compelled to abandon temporarily his main object , and turn his atten- tion to something else , in order to raise means ...
... nature , and such as invari- ably obstruct the progress of a new invention , attended him in England . He was often compelled to abandon temporarily his main object , and turn his atten- tion to something else , in order to raise means ...
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... natural to the mind of an ardent projector , who had been so long devoted to one darling object , which it was not his destiny to accomplish ! —and how touching is the sentiment found in his journal : The day will come when some more ...
... natural to the mind of an ardent projector , who had been so long devoted to one darling object , which it was not his destiny to accomplish ! —and how touching is the sentiment found in his journal : The day will come when some more ...
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... nature of the story , and from its value as an example and lesson , perhaps the most instructive to be any- where found , for all who have to be either the architects of their own fortunes , or their own guides in the pursuit of ...
... nature of the story , and from its value as an example and lesson , perhaps the most instructive to be any- where found , for all who have to be either the architects of their own fortunes , or their own guides in the pursuit of ...
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